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September 25, 2003
Iraq: Oh my dear readers, lawyers
I finally sat down to look through the CPA materials on economic policy, etc.
Someone please tell me that the following documents are not the ones that were the source of the media reports:
From http://cpa-iraq.org/regulations/index.html
Foreign investment: http://cpa-iraq.org/regulations/20030921_CPAORD39.pdf
Banking: http://cpa-iraq.org/regulations/20030924_CPAORD40.pdf ; although I do see this http://cpa-iraq.org/regulations/20030924a_CPAORD40ANNEX.pdf needs to be read
(for context see http://www.export.gov/iraq/pdf/iraq_commercial_law_current.pdf)
Also, I believe this article needs to be read attentively:
Crossed Wires Deprived Iraqis of Electric Power
War Plans Ignored Worn Infrastructure
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, September 25, 2003; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61044-2003Sep24.html
Highlights the extreme incompetence of efforts to date. I am particularly amused by the claims that the problems of the initial strategy could not have been anticipated. I for one anticipated them in my initial thread on the SDMB for bloody fuck's sake. However, they were afraid of the political problems of putting the price tag on.
And now we have the incredibly ludicrous idea in Congress of making Iraq aid a forced loan.
(See the NYT for a decent if overly polite look at this cockamamie idea: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/25/opinion/25THU2.html)
Posted by The Lounsbury at September 25, 2003 08:01 PM
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